Mayor Eric Adams hurries to put 13,000 refugees in Bronx tents


As New York City tries to cope with the unexpected new influx of migrants, the first massive shelters are being erected in the parking lot of a beach in the Bronx.

The tents are a component of the city’s plan to house 13,000 asylum seekers who have been bussed into the city as part of a Republican governors’ push to sabotage federal border rules.

A variety of solutions, including employing cruise ships and summer camps, have been proposed by Mayor Eric Adams’ team, including housing the migrants in tents.

Workers could be seen hauling the enormous tarps into position to provide as a protection from the weather while cherry pickers lifted the enormous metal structure into place.

Given that the notion was reportedly just broached last week by New York Mayor Eric Adams, the construction has gone especially rapidly.

In a statement last week, Mayor Adams stated, “This is not an ordinary homelessness situation; it is a humanitarian disaster that calls for a different solution.”

The extensive network of homeless shelters in New York City has been struggling to handle the sudden increase in the number of people seeking refuge in the United States.

At Orchard Beach in a rural area of the Bronx, where there is little access to public transit, the first few tents are already being set up. Authorities are reportedly investigating further regions.

Hardhat-wearing workers were spotted hauling metal poles that had been transported by trucks while others dug holes in the ground, revealing the tents’ framing.

Once finished, the heated tent will be put up with rows and rows of cots as the city’s fall evenings get chilly.

The so-called “humanitarian emergency response and relief centers,” according to municipal authorities, would only keep refugees for up to four days while the city set up other sorts of shelter.

Advocates for immigration have said that the idea was poorly thought out.

The executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, Murad Awawdeh, said: “While we recognize there is urgency in meeting the very real needs of asylum seeking families while our shelter system remains over-burdened, we believe that any effort to open a temporary relief camp at Orchard Beach is ridiculous and likely to cause more harm than good, especially as the fall turns into winter.”

We worry that the intended short-term fix may turn into a permanent one that is insufficient, he said.

Homeless advocacy organizations said they were withholding judgment.

Josh Goldfein, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society, said that there is just not enough information available regarding their strategy for him to develop a conclusion. “It would be excellent if the objective here is to kind of rapidly analyze what individuals need and link them to resources that can assist them.”

We just have a location and an image of a large tent, he added. We have no idea who or what will be included in it.

‘A realistic solution that meets New York’s legal and moral commitment to offer safe and appropriate housing to everyone who seek it, including asylum seekers,’ the Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless said in a joint statement, adding that they were working with city authorities.

Adams had suggested hosting hundreds of refugees aboard cruise ships earlier this month.

Critics jumped on that notion, claiming he needed to provide longer-lasting answers to a city-wide issue that has long perplexed residents: how to find long-term housing for the city’s unhoused, including not only recent immigrants but also a sizeable number of those who are homeless.

The COVID-19 epidemic was one factor in the overall decline in the number of persons spending the night in New York City’s homeless shelters in recent years.

Due to the reduction in shelter capacity as a result, the system was not ready for the rapid increase in those in need of assistance.


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